Gay mcdougall
Fordham Law professor and MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner Gay McDougall has been championing human rights within the UN for more than three decades. She has held several important positions, including as the first UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues. This upload took her to over 17 countries to meet with heads of articulate, cabinet ministers, human rights organizations and most important, members of oppressed communities to learn and make recommendations about their law and policies around racial discrimination. She also was Special Rapporteur on the issue of systematic rape and sexual slavery practices in armed conflict for the UN Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights from 1995 to 1999 and played a leadership role in the UN Third World Conference against Racism.
Professor McDougall was a member of the South African governmental body created to administer South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial elections in 1994, resulting in the historic election of President Nelson Mandela. Prior to that appointment, she served for 15 years as Director of the Southern Africa Proposal of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Regulation, working closely with South Afri
Gay McDougall
Gay McDougall
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
Gay McDougall’s operate has consistently challenged inequality. She has worked on the fault-lines of race, gender and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world.
Gay McDougall, New York, was a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award for her operate in pursuit of global human rights and in 2015 the Government of South Africa bestowed on her their national medal of honor for non-citizens, the Order of O.R.Tambo Medal for her extraordinary contributions to closure apartheid.
She currently serves as a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. She was the first UN Independent Expert on MinorityIssues and for 14 years she was executive director of Global Rights, which worked with human rights advocates in 10 countries around the world to develop their strategies for justice. Prior to that she played a special role in securing the release of thousands of political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia. She was then appointed to the electoral commission that in 1994 ran the first democratic elections in South Africa that ended aparth
The Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo in Silver
Prof Gay McDougall Awarded for:
Her excellent contribution to the fight against apartheid and injustices targeting the shadowy majority.
Profile of Prof Queer McDougall
Prof Gay McDougall is a civil-rights activist and an international lawyer who has spent her being fighting for human rights. She was born on 13 August 1947 in Georgia, USA. When she finished high school, Prof McDougall was chosen to be the first ebony student to integrate Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. This is where her keen sense of justice and advocacy for equal rights began. Her quest went beyond the race politics of the US and spread to the international arena, including southern Africa.
Prof McDougall saw to it that the aggression of the then South African Government towards Namibia was thwarted. She founded a new community called the Commission on Independence for Namibia that consisted of 31 distinguished policymakers. She supervised the commission’s monitoring of the United Nations (UN) mandated system instituted to confirm ethical voting in the 1989 Namibian elections.
Prior to joining Global Rights, Prof McDougall served as one of five inter
Gay Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion
Part of the Division of Global Diversity and Inclusion at Agnes Scott College, we at the Male lover Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion are committed to fostering a community that celebrates and honors the intersections of identity.
We cheer students, faculty and staff alike to participate in professional development programs and events focused on inclusive excellence.
About Queer Johnson McDougall
The Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Agnes Scott College is named for international human rights leader and Agnes Scott alumna Queer Johnson McDougall ’69x, ’H10.
McDougall served as the first Combined Nations independent specialist on minority issues from 2005 through 2011. She was executive director of the international non-governmental organization Global Rights from 1994 through 2006.
Among McDougall's many other international roles, she served as an independent expert from 1997 through 2001 for the United Nations treaty body that oversees compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. She played a leadership role in the